I remember 9/11, in the UK I just finished college and was getting the
bus when some people were saying they got text messages from other
friends telling them someone attacked the twin towers. When i got home
I found my younger brother glued to the TV telling me one of the towers
were burning away, I saw it and I was in disbelief.

In the same way this is how the documentary starts with a surprise on
seeing the tower on fire, nobody knowing of yet how it hit at the time.
That was at 8:46am people just got up to leave home, and on the other
side of the Atlantic I was on my way back home.

The style of the program is cameras from camermen on the ground as well
as civilian footage, the reactions of anger, fear and more all seen and
absorbed to this footage.

Then you see the fires, the jumpers, the second crash, the fall of the
tower, the dust, the second collapse and a final dust sweeping over new
york.

What was perhaps the greatest shock was seeing the full devastation the
dust brought, covering all streets in dirty brown dust, water is dirty,
windows smashed and an entire scenery which bears no resemblance to the
New York we all know and love. To be there at time must had been
terrifying, and no Hollywood film could replicate the fear the events
brought as shown from eyes of ordinary people.

This film serves just as much an educational purpose as it does
retelling the events.

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